Body Weight

Boo Hoo,

I have lost half a stone since before Christmas, all I did to do that was eat loads of food, and not go to the gym. Depressing, as I wanted to put a stone on... I am not at the lowest for about 4 years at 12.5 stone...

So a new programme is in order, I am going to cram protein, and exercise more, lots of chicken tuna and pasta coming up!!!!

Rage against the machine part 2

So, Wednesday was a bad day for travel into London... and out of!!!!

Paddington underground was shut because of congestion, again, I'm so bored of this problem that our government and transport agencies can not be bothered to solve that I will nt say anymore on the subject!!!!

Then, worse, on the way home, they let me get all the way into the hellish bowels of the earth on the platform at Oxford Circus, before telling me there was a fire hazard... at which point a cretin working for London Underground could provide me with no further information... So I ran from Oxford Circus to Paddington, in order not to miss my train, giving myself blisers all over my feet... now I am a flabby city boy, and need the exercise... but I don't like running for the failings of my own country...

Ross for Emporer, come on!!!!!! I'll sort things out.

New Years Resolutions

1) relax, no more stress, if you expect to get more than one thing out of me at a time, think again, (but that one thing will be done really, really well of course)!
2) Nicky says point one is because I am a man!
3) get fit again... gym, run
4) eat more healthy, (more fruit)
5) drink more water
6) speak better Italian
7) work on my game
8) blog more regularly
9) dream more normal dreams
10) stick to this list

Before I get on to serious things

Another strange work related dream... A friend of mine from work Emanuel, and I were having an argument in my dream on Thursday night on which is better, Little Britain or The Fast Show... The problem was, Emanuel was getting very, animated, violent even, and he was wearing a very big hat made out of pork!!! Confusing... anyway, he later revealed to me how he likes strange hats.....

Wow, what can I say... this guy can blog (techies will like this)

I found a really good blog on web 2.0 and Ajax, a couple of concepts that I hear being chucked around more and more...

My take on them.. remember when we thought javascript was the most amazing thing... and it should almost steer websites singlehandedly, alond with DHTML.. we soon found it was a cross browser nightmare, insane too many client side screw-ups, demented monkeys in a barrel wearing gas masks and flippers directing the show approach.. and dropped it... why have people not learned from their mistakes? They are doing the same thing all over again???

So read Bile Blog, Web 2.0/Ajax...

Finally saw Pumpkin Head while Nicky was out at the Doves concert

Have to disagree with Carl on this one, the old hag was great in it, throw in a bit of hillbillyism and you almost have the complete thing, but in general the film was a bit lame!

Probably needed a scene like the popcorn love scene from Troll 2 to liven it up!

Whinging in general

Yo Yo, I'm back from Milan, nice place, workde hard, played hard now tired...
so here is how bad luck comes in 3's...
first someone drove into the back of our car when Nicky picked me up on Thursday night from Reading Station... no injuries, just a pain in the arse...
then our car headlight bulb went...
then we got a crack in our windscreen while driving down to Bournemouth...

aagghh!

Fun to see you all for the Christmas gettogether!

I had a great time, was good to see you all, although we were not very successful with the Christmas shopping, at least we got ideas for ourselves hey?

Rosspo, the betrayal!!!! What a black day it was with the toffee, I shall have to remember that for your stag do!

Nice mixture of red red wine, and Guiness.

The Machinist

Wow... Christian Bale is really on form with this... he has been damn good in quite a few films so far...

I thought the transformation/weight loss thing was amazing, you couldn't pay me enough to make me want to do that!

However, the idea (not saying what) that makes up the general gist of the film has been done before.

I still think his performances in Empire of the Sun and American Psycho are his best.

A new addition to our family, Welcome Bella!

So there is a new addition to our family, little Bella, who is about 7 weeks old, and as you can see, is just about the cutest thing on the planet!
She is in effect, the spiritual daughter of Bess our beloved old family dog who died at the excellent age of 15 some months ago.

Bella is apparently quite a little character, quite hyper, and active.

I look forward to seeing you can outplay the other when I see her next!

Well I am back from Tuscany

And it has pretty much rained for a week! Over in Tuscany I was in the outdoor pool, catching the beautiful golden light thta the region is famous for. Drinking marvellous coffee, eating wonderful food, and to finish it all off, some exquisite wine.

I love the language, and culture... in short I reckon I could live there.

So here I am, working again (time to win the lottery)!

Had a disturbing dream last night, Nicky had twins!

Woke up in a cold sweat!

Hi Everyone

As you are no doubt aware, I have been incredibly busy just recenty with trips to Europe etc, so I just wanted to say thankyou for all making it to Alton Towers for Nicky's birthday, it was great, except for the rain, and my fear of some of the rides!

I am now looking forward to my holiday in just less than a weeks time, hurray!

And finally I wanted to record my latest strange dream. I was sat at my desk at work, and all the code I had written had bugs, each bug was attached to a packet of toffee, in the draw of my boss, who was kind of like Willy Wonka. The packets of toffee were all lined up and filed, and he kept throwing one at me for every bug he found. Whats that all about?

Darth Limpets Cider Homebrew Extravaganza

Great fun, cheers DL, still don't think I can get back on cider though.
Good to see Chudplug, and Mrs Plug on good drinking form.
The IToy was great fun, Kung Fu mayhem, a great keep fit toy!
Was good to see everyone.

It will be good to see those Half Yard of Ale piccies up on the web!

My first scary trip to the dentist

AAAGGGHHH, no pain, but a lot of discomfort, like when they put at least three drilling type implements in your mouth all at the same time.

The three most unpleasant aspects were however, the bits of tooth spraying out of my mouth, the dribbling like a gimp, and the choking and drowning sesation.

No more sweets, drink more milk, whatever else, just keep brushing my teeth!!!!

(And that was only one filling!)

Newbury Beer Festival

The wheel of time turns, and we found ourselves back at the Newbury Beer Festival.
To summarise, the hog roast ws perahps the best I have ever had, the first one I was allowed to help myself to crackling, yumm!!
We didn't play any drinking games this year, or make Bert eat things, which was a shame, but the organisers appreciated our plan to start with the beer at the top left and work our way down.

I know Darth Limpet would have appreciated a greater range of ciders!

Finally, some advice on good hog roast technique:
=> wait for fresh pig
=> don't be first in line
=> have more than one, its great!

Just a further effort to enhance our growing little community

Some time ago now I introduced my most esteemed compatriot Darth Limpet to a number of online tools which I hoped would enrich his life. I had been using these tools myself, and appreciated how they let me express thoughts and opinions.

The first of those tools was obviously www.blogger.com, and the second, Flickr for online photo sharing.

Now it is time for the next life improving tool, certainly for someone as forgetful as me.

Backpack allows you to create reminders, todo lists, and mini web pages, and you can get automatic reminders texted to your phone. It will help you organise your life.

And you can try it for free!

Blogging about a blog, hmm

Outstanding,

Rosspo launched a search on the web today for the 'Newbury Beer Festival', which is looming now.
Now, he used Microsofts web search MSN Search (and usually we would not forgive him for that), but in this case the first result to show was one of my blog postings, (at last, fame on the web), perhaps the first time I have ever appreciated Microsoft!!!!

IQ Tests

I am obviously so stupid that I don't even get IQ tests.

I have had three separate scores of 109, 127 and 136 over the last 6 or 7 years,
with the lowest being admittedly while I really couldn't be bothered to do it watching Anne Robinson, the other 2 occasions were under more controlled situations.

My most recent scored 127 off a web site test IQ Test.

How can you get such different scores, I know (spacial awareness is a low point for me)!

Load of old bollocks!!

Napoleon Dynamite

Saw Napoleon Dynamite last night, even had Nicky watching it. A very funny film, we both thought it had many similarities to Australian Films, some quirky filming, and it reminded us a little of an Australian series for kids form the early 90's called 'Round the Twist'.

Worth watching definately!

Holiday in Cornwall

Hi all, sadly my holiday has come to an end.

I had a great time, saw some amazing sights, and enjoyed my first attempt at surfing (something I hope to do regularly in the future)!

As it turned out, I was over confident and kept falling off the board, but Nicky was a good squatter and beat me!

Was good to see the family at my cousin Sophies wedding too! Congratulations Sophie and Mike.
See Rossputin Flickr Images .